Tuesday, March 25, 2008

terrorism at forests

Indonesia, the fourth biggest population in the world is suffering not from conflicts and disasters only, but from illegal tree logging and that can cause a big difference in Indonesia's environment. Also about 10% of animals are found only there will be homeless. Indonesia now has the highest rate of deforestation and 70% of its forests are disappeared. Unfortunately, 90% of the woods are smuggled to border countries illegally. And because of this the floods and landslides are occurred. In 2005, the biggest smuggling of merbau wood in the rainforests of West Papua happened, and most of it is smuggled to china which is about 300.000 cubic meters every month. In 2001, the government stood up and stops the strugglers, but they had other ways of smuggling woods. In December 2002, China and Indonesia cooperate to decrease smuggling woods but the bribes were taking place at that time. It's expected that in five years all the forests in Indonesia will be deforest, if there is no action against it.

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